Pretrial Trial Alleged Gratification Of KPK Chairman, LP3HI Desak Firli Bahuri Suspected

JAKARTA - The trial for the pretrial of alleged helicopter facility gratification, Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Firli Bahuri, has resumed at the South Jakarta District Court (PN) today.

Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian Law Enforcement, Supervision, and Enforcement Agency (LP3HI) Kurniawan Adi Nugroho as the applicant said today's trial had an agenda for reading the lawsuit request.

"Regarding today's trial agenda, the agenda is to read the petition where we read out our petition," Kurniawan said in the trial, confiscated by Antara.

Kurniawan in the main case said Firli Bahuri allegedly received gratuities while traveling by helicopter for pilgrimage to his parents' grave in South Sumatra (Sumsel) in June 2020. "Based on ICW's research, there was a difference of around Rp. 141 million given (by) the owner of the helicopter to the tenant, which in this case is Mr. Firli Bahuri," said Kurniawan. The defendant (Bareskrim) on June 3, 2021," said Kurniawan.

However, according to Kurniawan, until the pretrial lawsuit was submitted to the South Jakarta District Court, Bareskrim did not determine the head of the anti-corruption agency as a suspect. "As long as there is no announcement from Bareskrim stating that the reported person, in this case Mr. Firli, is a suspect, then we consider Bareskrim to have stopped the investigation secretly," he said. Furthermore, in the main case, Kurniawan asked Bareskrim to continue the investigation in the form of establishing Firli Bahuri as a suspect in the crime of gratification and handing over the case files to the public prosecutor (JPU).

"Our request is to state that Bareskrim has stopped the investigation and we ask that the respondent immediately determine the suspect and submit the file to the public prosecutor," said Kurniawan.

LP3HI is known to have filed a pretrial lawsuit against the Head of Bareskrim Polri. The lawsuit with Case Number 36/Pid.Pra/2023/PN JKT.SEL questioned Firli Bahuri's investigation in the case of allegedly gratification of the use of helicopter facilities.

Previously, the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society Association (MAKI) had also reported Firli Bahuri to the KPK Supervisory Board (Dewas) of the case. Dewas KPK decided Firli Bahuri to commit a violation of the code of ethics and was given a light sanction in the form of a written warning II for using a helicopter on his way to South Sumatra and when he returned to Jakarta in June 2020. "To try to declare the examinee guilty of violating the code of ethics, not heeding the obligation to fully realize his attitude and actions to always be attached because he is a commission member, shows the example regulated in Article 4 paragraph 1 letter n and Article 8 paragraph 1 letter f of the Supervisory Board Regulation No. 02/2020 concerning Enforcement of the KPK Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct," said Chairperson of the Ethics Council Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean in an ethics trial at the KPK Building in Jakarta, Thursday, September 24, 2020.Dewas KPK stated that there was no alleged receipt of gratuities or discounts from helicopters used by KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri during his trip in Baturaja, Palembang until arriving in Jakarta. "Everything submitted has been checked in the clarification there is no evidence of a meeting between the person concerned with someone from the aviation service provider. The provider has also provided clear information that all of it is not given, including discounts," said Tumpak in a press conference at the KPK Jakarta Building, Thursday, September 24, 2020.